Pruitt Frustrated By Lack of Support

#76
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Freak said:
I think you’ve created this narrative in your mind.

I’m old enough to remember “Go Johnny Go and take Devoe” taking the town by storm.
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I'm old enough to remember those as well, I'm also old enough to remember when our fanbase showed a lot more class when it came to these situations as they do today.
 
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PulaskiVolFan said:
No, our fanbase used to support the football team no matter what their record was or what our chances of winning were. Today's fan cries and whines and could care less about this year's team who coincidently is still playing out the year. The NegaVol faction of our fanbase has put a nasty stain on how our fanbase is now viewed.
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UT fans have been more than tolerant over the years and have gotten jack sh*t in return. The time comes where the product must be worth supporting. It’s been bad a long time now.
 
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VolFreakJosh said:
We’ve been putting up with mediocre results since 2008.

You honestly think we’re b*tching just to be b*tching? We’ve all seen what kind of coach Pruitt is.

Thank goodness the Basketball program has a good coach that knows what he’s doing because this makes the third football coach in a row who couldn’t coach their way out of a paper bag.

The whole blaming the fans BS, is old.
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You don't post anything positive about this team, I could care less about your negative views. That should tell you all you need to know what I think about your take.
 
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He’s a complete dumbass. Fans continued to support him even after Georgia State. People get tired of making excuses especially for an Ahole. You get support by being a winner or being charismatic. Jeremy Pruitt is as charismatic as a rotten potato.
 
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PulaskiVolFan said:
You don't post anything positive about this team, I could care less about your negative views. That should tell you all you need to know what I think about your take.
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WTF is there positive to post about? Hey we didn't lose by 25 to Florida! YAY! Hey, we're going to finish recruiting around 7-9 in the SEC! YAY!

Happy now?
 
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DEFENDTHISHOUSE said:
UT fans have been more than tolerant over the years and have gotten jack sh*t in return. The time comes where the product must be worth supporting. It’s been bad a long time now.
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The UT fan mob is what got all of this started years ago, now you want us to trust they have the right answer now? It's time we stop listening to the mob instead of following them off the cliff as we have since the advent of the internet.
 
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Freak said:
I think you’ve created this narrative in your mind.

I’m old enough to remember “Go Johnny Go and take Devoe” taking the town by storm.
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It's definitely not a new phenomenon. Johnny didn't coin the term "Legion of the Miserables" for nothing. It's just that the reactionary fans used to have to wait until a radio show to be heard. Now, thanks to you, they just raise their phone and post a rant here in under 10 seconds.

In conclusion . . . it's all Freak's fault.
 
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PulaskiVolFan said:
The UT fan mob is what got all of this started years ago, now you want us to trust they have the right answer now? It's time we stop listening to the mob instead of following them off the cliff as we have since the advent of the internet.
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They ran themselves off the cliff with the hires they’ve been making. Period.
 
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TheMookieMonster said:
Bid farewell to the endless summer of FIRE MALZAHN





I'm not sure what else Jeremy Pruitt thinks he should be given that he does not have at the moment. We're spending top-dollar for assistants and until this disaster of a season he had plenty of fan support around the program. If he is so soft that he is mad fans want him fired after an historically terrible year, I don't know what else to say. At that point, he should just resign and go be a DC.

If this is how Pruitt actually feels, I'm not sure how you can justify giving him another year to tank the program further. Give him his walking papers and let him go be a DC somewhere else if that's what will make him happy.
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If those are his true thoughts, let him go.
 
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GAVol said:
It's definitely not a new phenomenon. Johnny didn't coin the term "Legion of the Miserables" for nothing. It's just that the reactionary fans used to have to wait until a radio show to be heard. Now, thanks to you, they just raise their phone and post a rant here in under 10 seconds.

In conclusion . . . it's all Freak's fault.
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Fahr Freak
 
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PulaskiVolFan said:
I'm old enough to remember those as well, I'm also old enough to remember when our fanbase showed a lot more class when it came to these situations as they do today.
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That's not particular to our fanbase though. Society as a whole is less forgiving and much more easily organized around movements and protests and shows of opinion for attention. Social media has elevated it to new highs. If Alabama was losing 6-8 games a year for as long as Tennessee has, I promise you they would look exactly like Tennessee fans look now. Same for Florida fans. Or Georgia fans. If either of them was so uncompetitive for so long, their fans would be just as radioactive. Tennessee simply has the misfortune of being the most incapable results this past decade and showing very little progress for it all.

I will say this about it. The only thing left after all this frustration and complaining is apathy. It's just fans being resigned to it. Also known as Nebraska. I hope like hell that Tennessee never reaches that stage. I cringe when people compare Tennessee to Nebraska. I don't want admit it's that bad.
 
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PulaskiVolFan said:
No, we're back to there is a faction of our fanbase that is classless and pure trash and their constant whining has made the fanbase a laughingstock across the country.
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Oh give that a rest. Every friggin fanbase in the country is the same that has passionate fans. Every.........single............one. Look at a Bama board when they lose a game - any game - it's time for Saban to hit the road. Seriously. Texas boards want Herman gone so bad they can't see straight. Oklahoma boards are calling for Lincoln Riley's head if he loses to Iowa State again. It's the nature of the beast. The difference between the 3 I just mentioned and Tennessee is that all of them are in MUCH better shape overall.

I will never worship a coach, nor feel sorry for them if they fall on their face. Gomer makes more money than I'll likely ever see in my life to perform. And if he fails he's still a multi-millionaire.

Fans only have so many fall Saturday's - and none of us know if we will see another one. Good lord willing I hope to see quite a few more since I'm just 40 years old but there's no guarantee. So for me to want to see Tennessee in a better place by hiring a competent coach absolutely doesn't make me or many others who think like I do classless and pure trash. You can have your opinion and I can have mine but I don't see things the same way.

I'll never get on here and outright blast off on the kids who are playing for UT. There's a line drawn and when you bash kids on their Twitter and in public forums that's a different story. But the coaches are fair game. They know what they were getting into and get paid to do a job well. I've had performance based jobs many times in my life and if you don't perform you are shown the door. It don't have to be personal. This guy just will never be the right coach here at the University of Tennessee IMO.

I won't bash you for your opinion outright and disparage you or lump you into any type of category. All I will say is that just because some fans don't support a coach or "coach worship" don't make them trash. And the reason we are a LAUGHINGSTOCK across the country is because of the inability of the administration to make the right hire of a head coach the past 3 times out. They can make this right - or at least SHOW they are trying to make it right.

If they went out tomorrow and hired Jamey Chadwell or Billy Napier they'd at least be TRYING to make it right. If it didn't work out in a few years then yes we'd be going through this again. But an administration that is OK with the product we have now and are willing to let this guy twist in the wind is woefully inadequate IMO. You might as well put dirt over the field at Neyland and make it a flower garden if you don't want to win any more than that.
 
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He "would be happy just going back to being a plain-old “ball coach” defensive coordinator." because that's what he is.

The fact that we want him to be more than that, or that he wants to be more than that, is irrelevant. He is what he is.
 
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DEFENDTHISHOUSE said:
UT fans have been more than tolerant over the years and have gotten jack sh*t in return. The time comes where the product must be worth supporting. It’s been bad a long time now.
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This all day long. It’s not like these coaches are getting grief for finishing 6-4 (sound familiar) or 8-5. THEY ARE ROUTINELY PUTTING UP
LOSING RECORDS. And bowl trips are about 50% (and forget about a Sugar Bowl or other upper tier bowl).

It hasn’t even been mediocre. It’s been just plain BAD.

If you can’t take criticism for a losing record, then you don’t have the right standard. See ya!
 
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PulaskiVolFan said:
No, our fanbase used to support the football team no matter what their record was or what our chances of winning were. Today's fan cries and whines and could care less about this year's team who coincidently is still playing out the year. The NegaVol faction of our fanbase has put a nasty stain on how our fanbase is now viewed.
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This is an absurd point of view.
 
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For someone to claim fans are negavols because they are dissatisfied with results of a multi-million dollar paid coach and staff is absurd. We aren't talking about dissatisfaction because they lost one game, to Bama, by a point in a competitive slugfest. We are talking about a historical, traditional power that routinely loses in ugly fashion, to bad teams.

Folks, and they know who, need to get over this false narrative and agenda by bashing fans who are critical of the poor performance of the coaching staff. I am not quoting the ring leader as he merely wants to argue and always wants to go against the grain of the conversation.

Fans have been complaining about poor performance for years. Social media and message boards have just put it at everyones fingertips.
 
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I don't see how our fanbase vs. Bama's, Georgia's, or Florida State's would be any different when it comes to expectations and voicing displeasure after bad losses. If he can't handle the heat, please get him out of the kitchen. Change the product on the field that results in improvement and wins, and all of the sudden you will have a fanbase that loves you.
 
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I really feel we have a great defensive coordinator.... the problem is his title is head coach. The fact of the matter is the head coach is more of a manager than a hands on coach. Pruitt is clearly more of a hands on coach than a TV show, radio show, quarterback club, booster entertainer type of guy. Not saying either is right or wrong. He just is not suited for the head coaching title and the responsibilities that come with it, and quite honestly, it shows. I would guess he is unhappy doing what he is doing, the players probably get the same feeling, and the fans are not happy with the results. In a hypothetical world, if Pruitt could go to Defensive Coordinator and a new head coach be brought in, I would be happy with it. I do not dislike Pruitt, but I just do not feel he is a head coach (and there is nothing wrong with that).
 
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